Cloud Control Host Lifecycle Management Guide Monitoring and Managing Hosts Setting Up the Environment to Monitor Hosts Setting Up the Environment to Monitor Hosts Before you start monitoring and administering hosts, it is recommended that you set up credentials and install the needed software. This chapter describes: Required Installations For Linux Hosts - Installing YAST Setting Up Credentials Setup Needed for Host Monitoring Target Setup Needed for Host Administration Note: The installation of YaST is only for Oracle Linux 6.0 or below. For Oracle Linux 7.0 operating system, no other installation is needed.